privacy policy

Your Privacy

Midland Evangelical Free Church is committed to protecting your personal privacy. We treat your privacy as we do our own.

This Privacy Policy discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for our website: http://mefchurch.org. The statement outlines the information we may collect, how we protect it, how we may use that information, and how you can elect to change your information.

Collection of Information

While using our public web pages, you do not have to identify yourself or divulge personal information. We may collect general information from you that does not identify you personally. This may include data such as your domain name, the name of the web page from which you entered our site, and which of our web pages you visited and for how long. We aggregate this information to help us better focus on the needs and interests of our visitors and improve the overall functionality of our website.

As you use our website, we will not collect any personal information including your name, street address, email address, and telephone number, unless you provide the information to us voluntarily. All membership records are stored on protected computer systems that are behind a firewall to keep this data secure.

If you make a gift or register for an event online using your credit card information, we enter this information into our secure database, so that we have a record of your gift history and so we can issue you a receipt. In order to fully use this website, a user must create a user login at https://mefchurch.onlinegiving.org/donate/login. During registration a user is required to give their contact information (such as name and e-mail address). The user MUST use their real name, as this is one way we identify the user in our database. We also will collect other information (such as date of birth and gender) for the sole purpose of tailoring the information on this site to the particular user.

Midland Evangelical Free Church and its database service provider, Ministry Platform, use a third party intermediary to perform the transaction processing. This intermediary is solely a link in the distribution chain, and uses the information provided for the sole purpose of processing the transaction. Your personal financial information is stored by the third party only if a recurring payment is set up.

If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with up to a AES-256 encryption. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards.

Cookies

When you view our website, we may store some information on your computer in the form of a cookie. Cookies allow us to tailor our website to better match your interests and preferences. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any of your personally identifiable information while on our site. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience all features and content of our website.

Use and Sharing of Information

When you do provide us with personal data, we may use that information in the following ways: provide you with Midland Evangelical Free Church news and events and receipt of our electronic newsletter.

If we use your personal data to contact you, we will provide you with a method allowing you to opt-out of future communication. You can also contact us by e-mail, writing or telephoning, at the below contact information.

We will not sell, share, or otherwise distribute your personally identifiable information to third parties, except as required by law.

Your Consent to This Privacy Policy

By using our website you signify that you agree with the terms of our current Privacy Policy as posted in this area of the website. If you do not agree with any term in this Policy, please do not provide any Personal Information on this site. If you do not provide Personal Information on this site you may not be able to do certain things, like access particular areas of the site, request certain types of information, or send us email.

Access to Your Personal Information

Our Commitment to Security

We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of the information under our control. Safeguards include restricted access to computer systems and paper files, firewalls, encryption and secure authentication methods.

For example, when our online giving form asks you to enter personally identifiable information for online transactions, your information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with up to a AES-256 encryption. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards.

All of your information is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. If you are uncomfortable sharing your personal data on the Internet, please contact us at the below addresses or telephone number.

Changes to this Statement

We may occasionally decide to change our privacy policy, especially as new features are added to our website. If there are changes to this statement, we will post those changes here so you are always aware of what information we collect, and how we use it. If at any point we decide to use your personal information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we would notify you and it’s your choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner.